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In New York, there are 782,000 women-owned firms who run businesses across vast swaths of industries. For women like Stephanie Falsetta – a paralegal who left her career for the more satisfying path of founding soap and lotions company Goats in a Coat – the rise in government-sponsored initiatives and…

In a recent Huffington Post article, it was pointed out that female entrepreneurs are often excluded by male-dominated investor groups, either intentionally (and illegally) or unintentionally through familiarity bias. What’s the answer to this glaring problem in our entrepreneurial ecosystem? Female mentors, female business leaders, and female…

It’s always great to see local entrepreneurs flourish in the Orange County area. Take, for example, Alli Webb of Drybar. Alli created Drybar in 2010, a hair salon that specializes in quick and relatively cheap “blowouts” for men and women with longer hair. As the…

The most recent data for women-owned businesses in 2015 is out, and the findings show that these businesses continue to soar. In the United States, over 9.4 million enterprises (30% of the nation’s businesses) are owned by women, providing nearly 1 in 7 jobs accounted for…

Fortified Food Startup is under management by Chicklabs, LLC, a private incubator located at Chapman University ORANGE COUNTY, CA (August 17, 2015) IMMUNO GUM®, the first product designed to combine 6 key herbal ingredients to support the immune system in a delicious chewing gum, has…

Immuno-Gum Founder Terry O’Neil has been chosen by the Orange County Register as one of OC’s HOT 25. The November issue is on news stands now but we’ve got an excerpt for you here: “Chew on this: Terry O’Neil, M.D., is poised to make it…

Following in the footsteps of the highly-acclaimed Dove Campaign for Real Beauty, Always Feminine Products challenges the idea that acting “like a girl” is a bad thing. In a 3 minute YouTube video, Always conducts an experiment where subjects are asked to do various activities…

Remember that little stunt the Chicklabs team put together called “Kiss Someone Healthy” for Immuno Gum? It seems AdWeek.com recently caught wind and featured the video and Immuno Gum in an article on June 18, 2014! Referring to it as the “undergrad version” of this year’s…

Here at Chicklabs, we have a lot of respect for our entrepreneurs. We feel fortunate to be working with a dedicated group of innovators who are leading some pretty groundbreaking companies. As we navigate their paths to acceleration, we want to introduce our companies and…

To stay true to it’s claim that it’s a “Gum With Benefits,” Immuno Gum has successfully obtained the title of being a GMO-free product, by the Gum Based Co. Created by a doctor himself, Immuno Gum is consistently looking for ways to include only the healthiest…